- 2000
- France
The five of them naturally decided to join forces, forming the AOC collective (artists originating from the circus) and setting up home in the Champagne-Ardenne region. Their physical prowess, electric energy and contagious sense of defiant creativity have become their calling cards.
The collective’s operations are structured around 3 main pillars: collective creativity, stage design as exploration, and multi-disciplinarity as a means of expression. Adopting the body and its contact points as their essential vocabulary, the company has devised its own unique language blending elements of the circus, dance, music and theatrical performance. Their aim is to make the performance space their playground, emotion their binding force and surprise their balancing mantra. For each new project they collaborate with a director from outside the circus arts.
Committed to the ideals of the circular economy, militant creativity and the dream of life on the road, Collectif AOC has its own big top. With space for up to 800 spectators, and no boundaries between the centre and the seats, this magical tent is a place for unbridled creativity, connection and emotion, a beautiful hybrid of theatre stage and circus ring.
Through the media of circus performance, dance, music and theatre, this multi-disciplinary collective aims to evoke the external shocks and internal turbulence of life. Open to the world and its emotions, Collectif AOC is an ever-shifting entity connected to the pulse of our times, a living being composed of three autonomous vital organs. Chloé Duvauchel (tightrope walker), Gaëtan Levêque (trampolinist) and Marlène Rubinelli-Giordano (trapeze artist) are the co-directors of a company driven by collective creativity, individual initiatives and cross-disciplinary projects. Together they create new performances and happenings, spontaneous living tableaux imagined for a specific time and place. They also work to provide immersive, collaborative spaces for all comers, with educational workshops aimed particularly at those with no artistic background.
